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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!spool.mu.edu!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!philapd!apdnews!spoetnix.idca.tds.philips.nl!wilko From: wilko@idca.tds.philips.nl (Wilko Bulte) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: Disklabel help needed Message-ID: <wilko.731857153@spoetnix.idca.tds.philips.nl> Date: 11 Mar 93 13:39:13 GMT References: <C3A9MB.9rE@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <1993Mar3.035202.11777@unet.net.com> <1993Mar5.020610.29203@tfs.com> <C3Gp2w.7D4@sugar.neosoft.com> <1993Mar11.095507.6095@marie.uucp> Sender: news@idca.tds.philips.nl Lines: 26 perryh@marie.uucp (Perry Hutchison) writes: >In <C3Gp2w.7D4@sugar.neosoft.com> peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >+ In article <1993Mar5.020610.29203@tfs.com> julian@tfs.com (Julian Elischer) writes: >+ > NEVER put the swap as teh first partition on the disk >+ > if it decides to swap to the first blocks it'll overwrite the disklabel >+ > and bootblocks >+ OK, folks, THIS is something that *needs* to be fixed ... Discussion? >The way I have handled this in SunOS is to always define an 'a' (boot) >partition starting at cylinder 0 of every disk, whether or not I intend >to make the disk bootable. For a non-bootable disk, one cylinder is >enough. In case of an Adaptec 154x this means a waste of 1 Mbyte of disk space because of the translation in the controller. Not ideal IMHO Wilko -- | / o / / _ Wilko Bulte mail: wilko@idca.tds.philips.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) |d|i|g|i|t|a|l| Equipment Enterprise voice: +3155-432062 fax: +3155-432103 DTN: 829 2062 PO Box 245 - 7300 AE Apeldoorn - The Netherlands